Editor's Note: Over the final four months of 1999, The Morning Call put together a list of the 10 greatest athletes of the 20th century, a list that included Olympic gold medalists, an NCAA basketball champion, collegiate All-Americans, Super Bowl champions, one of the greatest automobile racers in history and a heavyweight boxing champion. It also included three present or future members of the NFL Hall of Fame, led by Bethlehem's Chuck Bednarik, who passed away this past weekend at the age of 89. Here is former Morning Call sports editor Paul Reinhard's Dec. 12, 1999, story chronicling the life of Concrete Charlie, who was third on the list. (For the record, heavyweight...

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